In re Wm. S. Butler & Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Jr., Judge. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings against William S. Butler & Co., Incorporated. From a decree adjudging the corporation a bankrupt, the corporation, its receivers, and certain intervening creditors appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition in bankruptcy filed November 9, 1912, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, -by three creditors praying that William S. Butler & Co., Incorporated, be adjudged a bankrupt. The grounds stated in the petition upon which it is claimed that the defendant should be adjudged a bankrupt are the following:
“(1) That said William S. Butler & Co., Incorporated, is insolvent, and that within four months next preceding the dale of this petition * * committed an act of bankruptcy in that it did * * * on the 7th day of November,…
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